dusty
/ˈdʌsti/ noun C2- A medium-brown color.
- An old bottle of spirits that has been kept for a long time.
- A miller (from the image of millers being covered in flour dust).
- A supply petty officer.
- A recording of music from another era, especially R&B; an oldie.
- An old person, especially one who is unwilling to change with the times.
- A person of mixed race who has a swarthy complexion.
- A migrant farmer from the dustbowl.
Plural dusties
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It was a gloomy, dusty-looking apartment, such as journalists’ offices have always been from time immemorial.
I am Death!” It was Karait, the dusty brown snakeling that lies for choice on the dusty earth; and his bite is as dangerous as the cobra’s.
Rikki jumped sideways and tried to run in, but the wicked little dusty gray head lashed within a fraction of his shoulder, and he had to jump over the body, and the head followed his heels close.
I had often seen my noble patron annotating ancient volumes, and eagerly searching amongst dusty family manuscripts.
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